The clarion., 1887-04-06

ComPlaints-Preparatfo by Carriers.
Appeals to Supreme Court-The Com
mutation and Pass Questions.
SO much interest has been manifested
In the new Interstate Commerce bill,
which goes into effect April 4, that we
railroad men, and business men generally,
viii find it worth their while to preserve
1t for reference. The names of the com
missioners have already been given.
Be It enacted BY the Senate and House Of
Representatives. of the United States OF
ADteriea in Congress assembled:
Provisions of Aet-To Whom Applicable.
That the provisions of this act shall ap-
ply to any common carrier or carriers en-
gagged in the transportation of passengers
or property wholly by railroad or partly
by railroad and partly by water when
both are used, under a common control,
management, or arrangement, for con-
tinuous carriage or shipment, from one
state or territory of the United States. or
the District of Columbia, to any other
state or territory of the United States. or
place in the United States to an adjacent
foreign country, or from any place in the
United States through foreign country
to any other place in the United States,
and also to the transportation in like
manner of property shipped from any
place in the United States to a foreign
country and carried from such place to a
port of transshipment, or shipped from a
foreign country to any place in the United
States and carried TO such place from a
port of entry either in the United States
or an adjacent foreign country: provided,
however, that the provisions of this act
shall not apply to the transportation of
passengers or property, or to the receiv-
ing, delivering, storage or handling of
property, wholly within one state, and not
shipped to or from foreign country from
or to any state or territory as aforesaid
Terms "RaiIroad' and Transportation,
Defined.
The term railroad as used in this act
shall include all bridges and ferries used or
operated in connection with any railroad,
and also all the road in use by any cor
poration, operating a railroad, whether
owned or operated under contract,
agreement, or lease; and the term ''trans-
portation" shall include all instrument
talities of shipment or carriage.
Reasonable and inst Charges.
All charges made for any service rem
dered or to be rendered in the transporta-
ton of passengers or property as aforesaid,
or in connection Herewith, or for the re-
ceiving, delivering, storage, or handling
of such proberty, shall be reasonable and
just; and every unjust and unreasonable
charge for such service is prohibited and
declared to be unlawful.
Special Rates, Rebates, Drawbacks, Un-
just Discrimination.
Sec. 2 That if any common carrier
subject to the provisions of this act shall,
directly or indirectly, by any special rate,
rebate, drawback, or other device, charge,
demand, collect, or receive from any per-
son or persons greater or less compensa-
tion for any service rendered, or to be rem
dered, in the transportation of passengers
or property subject to the provisions of
this act, than it charges, demands, or col
lects, or receives from any other person
or persons for doing for him or them a
like and contemporaneous service in the
transportation of like kind of traffic
under substantially similar circumstances
and conditions, such common carrier shall
be deemed guilty of unjust discrimina-
ton, which is hereby prohibited and de-
clared to be unlawful.
Undue or Unreasonable Preferences-In-
terchange of Traffic.
Sec 3. That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to the provis-
ions of this act to make or give any undue
or unreasonable preference or advantage
to any particular person, company, firm,
corporation or locality, or any particular
description of traffic, in any respect what
soever, or to subject any particular person,
company, firm, corporation, or locality, or
| any particular description of traffic, to
any undue or unreasonable prejudice or
| disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.
Every common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act shall, according to
their respective powers, afford all reason
able, proper and equal facilities for the
| Interchange of traffic between their re-
| spective lines, and for the receiving, for
warding and delivering of passengers and
property to and from their several lines
| and those connecting Herewith, and shall
| not discriminate in their rates and charges
| between such connecting lines; but this
| shall not be construed as requiring any
| such common carrier to give the use of its
| track or terminal facilities to another car
| ,-ier encra ered in like business
| Long and short Hanl-Greater Compen-
sation for Shorter Than a Longer
| Distance Forbidden.
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful fef
! any common carrier subject to the provis-
| ions of this act to charge or receive any
| greater compensation in the aggregate
| for the transportation of passengers or OF
| like kind of property, under substantially
| similar circumstances and conditions, fol
| shorter than for longer distance ovel
the same line, in the same direction, the
shorter being included within the iongel
| distance: but this shall not be construed
! as authorizing any common carrier within
4 the terms of this act to charge and receive
| as great compensation for shorter as fol
a longer distance: provided, however
| that upon application to the commission
| appointed under the provisions of this act
such common carrier may, in specia
cases, after investigation by the commits
sion, be authorized to charge less fo
| longer than for shorter distances fol
transportation of passengers or property
and the commission may from time t
time prescribe the extent to which SAT-
designated common carrier may be re
Ieved from the operation of this section
of this act.
Pooling of Freights.
Sec. S. That it shall be unlawful fo
any common carrier subject to the pre-
!, visions of this act to enter into any cor
tract, agreement or combination with an
other common carrier or carriers tn
pooling Of freights of different and con
peting railroads, or to divide between ther
the aggregate or net proceeds of the carr
ings of such railroads, or any porto
thereof; and in any case of an agreemer
for the pooling of freights as aforesaid
each day of its continuance shall be deeme
q separate offense-
Schedules of Rates to BE Printed an
Made Public
Sec. 6. That every common carrier sui
iect 70 the provisions of this act shall prir
; | and keep for public inspection schedule
| | showing the rates and fares and charge
: for the transportation OF passengers an
} property which any such common carrie
! has established and which are in force /
the time upon its railroad, as defined
the first section Of this act. The schedule
printed as aforesaid by any such commc
, carrier shall plainly state the places upc